CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



TRANSPORTATION AND THE MONEY KINGS. 



THE QUESTION FROM ANTAGONISTIC STAND-POINTS. 



The article on Railroad Transportation by Mr. Flagg, 

 President of the Illinois Farmers Association, which consti 

 tutes Chapter XXXIV of this work, and that by Mr. J. 

 W. Midgley, Secretary of the President of the Chicago & 

 North-western Railroad, which is concluded on the preced 

 ing page, will be accepted, I think, not only as able but 

 also as candid statements from the particular stand-points 

 of the interests whom the writers represent. Mr. Flagg, in 

 this instance, has confined himself principally to giving 

 actual facts and figures relating to the transportation of 

 products, leaving the reader to draw his own conclusions 

 from what is presented. 



The treatment of the subject from the railroad stand 

 point, by Mr. Midgley, evinces very extensive knowledge of 

 railroad history, both in Europe and America, and sketches 

 the growth of the railway system from its inception in Eng 

 land up to the present time, the introduction of steam 

 and the changes consequently rendered necessary in the 

 carriage of goods, and an outline of the legislation regulat 

 ing the working of the system. These, I think, have never 

 before been presented in such shape as to bring them before 

 the masses; and from this consideration, if no other, the 

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